(0.0) 
Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill
June 30, 2007 by Jake
Filed under Americana, Lowest Rated, Most Popular
Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill Bricktown
310 Johnny Bench Drive
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
405.231.0254
I looked Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill up in a thesaurus and the results are located in the table below.
|
Main Entry: |
Toby Keith’s I Love this Bar and Grill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, beastly, dangerous, desperate, dire, disastrous, disturbing, dread, dreaded, dreadful, extreme, fearful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hateful, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, inconvenient, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, petrifying, poor, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious, severe, shocking, unfortunate, unnerving, unpleasant, unwelcome, vile |
| Antonyms: | great, wonderful |
I should REALLY preface this post by stating that I vowed that I would go to my grave having never eaten at this place. Unfortunately we had some friends (who in my book are now ex-friends) come into town that had moved from Oklahoma during the erection of TKILTBAG and wanted to see what it was all about. I warned them that no good can come from this but they ignored me. I said we should at least put it to a vote knowing my wife would side with me. As you can probably guess the vote was 3-1 with my sellout wife casting the tie breaking (and heartbreaking) vote. Not wanting to make a big deal about having to eat there I threw a large fit and let them all know they were idiots. Having grown accustom to my fits and bitching they neither cared nor changed their minds.
As we pulled into Bricktown the sky opened up and let out a torrential downpour. With this storm most of the electricity was lost in Bricktown. It appeared as if things were looking my way. Of course everyone I was with decided it was still a good idea to run through the rain to get to TKILTBAG. After waiting miserably for 45 minutes in the lobby with no power and a bunch of smelly wet people we decided to go somewhere else to eat. In my mind I was yelling VICTORY! So my friend and I ran through the rain again to get the car for the ladies. As we were pulling up to the front door my wife called and told me in a very snarky voice, “Hey, the electricity is back on and we can eat.” A wave of rage shot though my body and I felt like kicking a kitten or something, but on the outside I appeared to be okay with the decision. Once again we parked the car and ran through the parking lot to TKILTBAG. I can assure that there is no worse feeling in the world than being in TKILTBAG soaking wet.
As we were walking through the building I was accosted by more Toby Keith bullshit than I ever care to see in my life. There were tons of gold and platinum albums all over the place just proving that America is filled with Rednecks who will throw their money away on stupid shit. There were also a number of large televisions showing everything from NASCAR to Toby Keith videos. Two of my least favorite things might I add. To top it all of there was a huge patriotic painting of Toby Keith in his infamous “We’ll stick a boot in your ass” pose. I would have rather seen a giant painting of Rosie O’Donnell and Queen Latifa scissoring each other than this shit.
We were finally seated and I opened up the menu to a vegetarian’s nightmare. Essentially the only choice me and my traitor of a wife had was some onion straw type things as an appetizer and a delightfully sophisticated grilled cheese for an entrée (please pick up on my snideness when I say this). The grilled cheese was good but how hard is it to f$%k up a grilled cheese? Our friends ordered the Catfish and Rotisserie Chicken and both said they were very good, but I think they were lying.
Needless to say I absolutely refuse to eat here ever again and if I ever see Toby Keith in person I am going to punch him in the face and run.
Loading ...
Dear Vegetarian Blog Writer,
We are very entertained and amazed at your writing skills and your ability to critique fine eating establishments! I am very sorry you do not care for Toby Keith but are you really giving his restruant a fair shake? This man was born in Clinton, Okla on July 8…the same day as your favorite uncle! (Jr. if you weren’t sure who I was talking about)
All in all, we sincerely enjoy your critiques. Keep up the good work and when you come to Texas to visit us we will take you out to Bubba’s Barbecue and asparagus! Love ya, your red-necked relatives from East Texas
I agree. The best thing to come out of TKILTBAG is the free parking that surrounds it!
This place is nothing but a bunch of hype. But just an FYI - having eaten there a couple of times (and none of those times being my choice), this is what I can say about the place. It’s overpriced. I supposed if you enjoy Toby Keith and sellouts and such, then you would find this place entertaining. Seeing as how I do not care for Toby Keith or places crowded like that for no particular reason except for a very bad ambiance (sp?), I guess I’m in the minority. Alas, if you go here, two things are decent - the mashed potatoes and the rotisserie chicken. Vegetarians will just have to take my word on the chicken. And really, who can mess up mashed potatoes?
Thank god I found this site. I am moving to Oklahoma in a month and when I found my apartment all I saw were chain restaurants and the only recommendation I had was for TKILTBAG. Ugh. Oh, and I’m a vegetarian. I must tell you though, after reading through some old posts, I am getting more and more excited about the dining prospects in Oklahoma City.
Again, thank you. You saved my life.
Stupid Vagetarians. Get it, vagetarians? I just took vagina and vegetarians and put them together. Anyways, I hope you guys die of some kind of protein deficiency. mmmm mmmm I love this bar…and grill!
I am wondering how you can be a food critic if all you eat is bread and cheese??
There’s no justice in the world when TK has a restaraunt in OKC and The Flaming Lips do not!
As a newcomer to OKC, I don’t have the same disdain of Toby Keith that our interpid webisite administrators have. To tell you the truth, I had no idea who he was when we walked into the place. A common tourist trap disguised as a very poor man’s Hard Rock Cafe with the parking lot hard to find in the back. Toby Keith stuff on the walls and other stuff that would be considered local to area.
The food was kind of what I expected at a place like this. Kind of a Applebee’s/Chili’s/TGIFridays type of deal. Ribs, hamburgers, fries, sandwhiches, maybe a quesadilla. Nothing was very memorable, both to the good side or bad side. I would recommend to Toby Keith fans or if stuck in Bricktown with no where else to go.
@Toby Keith oh hey you’re exactly the type of idiot that restaurant caters to, congrats man
F*** everyone who doesn’t like this place or Toby Keith. He is amazing and so is his restaurant! Yall are just jealous cause he is a frkn superstar and yall aren’t shit!
well, I’ve been invited to speak my mind in this mysterious corner of the internet blog
universe, so I think I will…
Toby Keith, in my opinion, is a terrible waste of talent. It would seem that his gifts as a song writer, a singer etc.., are greatly off-set and outweighed by his ego, his decision to completely sell out, and his intellect: clearly he understands art in very superficial, broad stroke terms; what he “does” is NOT art, rather it is quasi-art…
lol
First of all you can’t possibly be a true vegetarian, guess what cheese is made of? Cheese, and how do we make cheese? With milk. Guess where milk comes from………..a cow! I think you are a want to be vegetarian, because you are a dumbass that doesn’t know that a cow is an animal! If you ever get enough courage up to go eat real food again without crying about it, I would suggest that you buy a slightly larger pair of panties so as not to be bothered with the problem of them riding up your stupid little ass! I also think you should stick with pink, Why? Because that is obviously your color! Oh by the way, you do have a somewhat talented literary skill, but you obviously do not have any grammar skills to speak of. You broke three simple elemantary rules in your writing. Can you find them? I didn’t think so.
Just politically speaking, I hate Toby Keith and more or less everything he stands for. Yet, paradoxically, I also love his bar and grill, and so does my once-vegetarian, also-screamingly-liberal girlfriend. If you go during weekday lunches, the prices are actually pretty good and I have to say that we’ve never had bad food there (the ribs are actually among the best I’ve had in OKC). Dinner, I agree, is seriously overpriced– we never go after 3pm M-F. But I would say that anyone who rules this place out because it’s Toby Keith’s restaurant takes themselves way too seriously.
TKILTBAG is like Disneyland for the Oklahoman rednecks. It’s ridiculous, maddening, and I love it! If anybody comes to visit me from out of state I take them here because it gives tourists a taste of the absurdness that is Oklahoma. My particular favorite piece of decor is a poorly done “patriotic” painting of running horses (it hangs in the VIP area.) It’s amazing. Decor aside, I think the food is both tasty and overpriced. I recommend getting the kids 5oz steak with loaded baked potato. For a vegetarian meal I’d go with the loaded baked potato sans bacon. That would be more than semi filling and affordable to boot. As for the vegans, you’re probably out of luck and would be stuck with yet again another plain baked potato. I wouldn’t trust them to make any side order of vegetables not drenched in meat drippings or butter.
Re: TKILTBAG - Barring your ideas on being a sellout and country music (of which I’ve got strong opinions, too), your restaurant review is mostly angry about the lack of vegetarian offerings. I get it, and I get the humor. Might as well let someone else pony up some words on their other offerings, too, because you didn’t really have anything bad to say about the food - just that it was hard to screw up what you ordered, which isn’t a reflection in itself.
Re: Jim -
Jim, you’ve got some wires crossed. Vegetarians don’t eat meat. It’s often for a variety of reasons. Some people don’t like spending energy resources feeding grain to a cow when just feeding the grain to the less fortunate would do much, much more to cure world hunger. Some people are really dissatisfied with humane standards in the food production world, some of which are absolutely deplorable. Whatever the reason, being a vegetarian mostly requires avoiding meat protein, not animal products that don’t involve a dead animal. Dairy’s cool, Eggs are fine, y’know, whatever.
Vegans, on the other hand, swear off any and all animal products. They’re the more militant variety of vegetarian, to who you’re referencing. They won’t wear leather (because it’s from an animal), they won’t eat cheese or eggs (because it’s from an animal), etc, ad nauseum.
Furthermore, resorting to ad hominem attacks for a blog post about a guy who didn’t like a restaurant based on its ambiance and decor and themes is pretty stupid and wrong-headed. Not liking a restaurant for those reasons is fine, even if the food is really good. If a waiter takes 30 minutes between bringing out drinks and coming to take your order, there’s a good chance you’re not going back there. The food’s great, sure, but you’re there forever. Do you see where I’m going with this?
Anyway, for the tl;dr crowd out there, quit being a douche.